UK Box Office Thread

[Chicago]

7 minutes ago, Bruce said:

sorry,I don't know who he is,he is not famous in China

Good

[Ipickthiswhiterose]

4 minutes ago, Chicago said:

 

I mean, he didn't have to kill Luke off the way he did. He didn't have to add that 30 minute casino scene and set up which led to nothing. He didn't have to make us think we were about to get an old school style lightsabre fight only for Luke to be a fucking ghost. We can slate TFA all we want for being a modern copy of the original, but atleast it was somewhat fun

 

A year after the release of TLJ, the only people still talking about it were the rare few trying to defend it, everyone else had moved on, leaving the Star wars franchise behind them. Solo absolutely bombed and TROS underwhelmed all things considered. Clearly this all started after the release of TLJ

 

 

 

No interest in the critique of the film itself particularly. You can critique anything. Although your complaint of the finale being Luke exposing an angry young man by showing him he was just flailing angrily about at nothing is probably the best summary of the philosophies of the original trilogy you can get. This is a story where the OT was resolved by the protagonist refusing to fight.

 

We can slate TFA for being a copy of the original creatively sure. Some people loved that and some didn't, and that's all fine. But what's more significant is what that creative choice did for the rest of the trilogy: a binary had been created that couldn't possibly satisfy everyone and was bound to cause a rift. After that first film the trilogy had to either copy the original, which would have satisfied many but been creatively bankrupt and destroyed all casual fandom. Or you could not copy the original, which by the time Abrams had finished with the first meant actively going against some of his threads, which would be the more interesting option but was always going to annoy some. 

 

As for Solo. Putting that at TLJ door is severely questionable. It was just a film that nobody asked for and nobody wanted the moment Harrison Ford wasn't going to be involved and it was a prequel. By it's very conceit it was a stakes-less movie.

 

Again, Star Wars is alive and well albeit saturated.

 

Bearing in mind I'm not contesting the overall sense of disappointment with the ST. What I'm contesting is the weird notion of TLJ as some unique franchise killer given the number of franchises that have, actually, been killed. And especially given the unique debacle that was the strategy surrounding the second and third Matrix films alongside their reception. 

 

 

[Sophia Jane]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

Don't worry, we brits want to not know who he is too 

Actually ,we don't know too much about British culture,even the Beatles is not famous here in China（I love Beatles but most of Chinese never heard of them）

But we do know about 007,Harry Potter,David Beckham,Mr.Bean,Sherlock Holmes,London,they are not only famous among young generation ,even old people know them,too.They are really famous,and they are household name for Chinese,but except them, we don't really know and care much about UK culture

[Chicago]

9 minutes ago, Bruce said:

Actually ,we don't know too much about British culture,even the Beatles is not famous here in China（I love Beatles but most of Chinese never heard of them）

But we do know about 007,Harry Potter,David Beckham,Mr.Bean,Sherlock Holmes,London,they are not only famous among young generation ,even old people know them,too.They are really famous,and they are household name for Chinese,but except them, we don't really know and care much about UK culture

Who's more well known there? David Beckham or Christiano Ronaldo?

[Dandeak2000]

24 - 26 September 2021

 

1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - £1,600,000 (-33%) / £18,300,000 / Week 4
2. The Many Saints of Newark - £674,645 / £945,063 (inc. previews) / Week 1
3. Free Guy - £550,931 (-19%) / £16,100,000 / Week 7
4. Oasis Knebworth 1996 - £344,833 / £634,278 (inc. Thursday previews) / Week 1
5. Respect - £249,872 (-28%) / £1,700,000 / Week 3

 

The Green Knight - £166,021 / 73 sites / Week 1 / £2,274 PSA (per site average)

 

Shang-Chi is now only £500K from passing Black Widow and £1.1M away from Captain America: The Winter Soldier to become the 17th highest grossing MCU title.

 

Oasis Knebworth grossed £150K more than Summer of Soul (£454.6K) in its first two days,

 

More to come soon...

Edited September 27, 2021 by Mike Hunt

[SchumacherFTW]

 

2 minutes ago, Chicago said:

Who's more well known there? David Beckham or Christiano Ronaldo?

I'm more curious to know how aware most of China is of Guanyu Zhou 👀

[SchumacherFTW]

2 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

24 - 26 September 2021

 

1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - £1,600,000 (-33%) / £18,300,000 / Week 4
2. The Many Saints of Newark - £674,645 / £945,063 (inc. previews) / Week 1
3. Free Guy - £550,931 (-19%) / £16,100,000 / Week 7
4. Oasis Knebworth 1996 - £344,833 / £634,278 (inc. Thursday previews) / Week 1
5. Respect - £249,872 (-28%) / £1,700,000 / Week 3

 

The Green Knight - £166,021 / 73 sites / Week 1 / £2,274 PSA (per site average)

 

More to come soon...

I contributed £15 to The Green Knight. That was definitely a movie

[Dandeak2000]

Top 20 Best Openings - 2021

1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - £5,759,504 / 640 sites
2. F9 - £4,836,773 / 594 sites
3. Black Widow - £4,639,095 / 644 sites
4. Peter Rabbit 2 - £3,808,508 / 496 sites
5. The Suicide Squad - £3,252,028 / 635 sites
6. Free Guy - £2,391,278 / 627 sites
7. A Quiet Place: Part II - £2,250,535 / 561 sites
8. Jungle Cruise - £2,241,651 / 577 sites
9. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It - £1,867,821 / 473 sites
10. Cruella - £1,453,635 / 522 sites
11. Space Jam: A New Legacy - £1,363,556 / 603 sites
12. The PAW Patrol Movie - £1,258,187 / 581 sites
13. Candyman - £1,110,323 / 604 sites
14. In The Heights - £1,036,517 / 630 sites
15. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - £1,031,208 / 522 sites
16. Old - £866,860 / 560 sites
17. Godzilla vs. Kong - £783,879 / 432 sites
18. The Forever Purge - £701,806 / 501 sites
19. The Croods 2: A New Age - £696,196 / 602 sites
20. The Many Saints of Newark - £615,850 / 628 sites

 

It's going to be kicked out by No Time to Die next weekend, but a pretty good opening for TMSoN

[Sophia Jane]

13 minutes ago, Chicago said:

Who's more well known there? David Beckham or Christiano Ronaldo?

They are both household name for young generation in China,but I think Beckham is  more famous than Ronaldo for old generation,maybe 60+ years old people know more about David Beckham

This question is just like "Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan,who is more famous in UK",then I guess Bruce lee win the old generation and Jackie chan win the young generation

Edited September 27, 2021 by Bruce

[Dandeak2000]

2 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

I contributed £15 to The Green Knight. That was definitely a movie

The Green Knight's opening was extremely strong for 73 sites! I checked it out on Prime because it wasn't playing anywhere near me, going to keep my eye out at the Indie cinemas though.

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, Mike Hunt said:

The Green Knight's opening was extremely strong for 73 sites! I checked it out on Prime because it wasn't playing anywhere near me, going to keep my eye out at the Indie cinemas though.

Thankfully I've got a couple of Everyman cinemas around me, so I popped over to one of them for the first time. Holy crap, I totally get why those places are so popular, that experience earns the ticket price for sure. 

[SchumacherFTW]

3 minutes ago, Bruce said:

They are both household name for young generation in China,but I think Beckham is slight more famous than Ronaldo for old generation,maybe 60+ years old people know more about David Beckham

This question is just like "Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan,who is more famous in UK",then I guess Bruce lee win the old generation and Jackie chan win the young generation

Yeah, that's pretty accurate for the UK

[Ipickthiswhiterose]

Thanks to all for the heads up for Green Knight. I have been looking forward to it for a while, but that it was actually out now had passed me by. I think it's been so long I'd just mentally written it off!

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, Ipickthiswhiterose said:

Thanks to all for the heads up for Green Knight. I have been looking forward to it for a while, but that it was actually out now had passed me by. I think it's been so long I'd just mentally written it off!

Amazon are appalling at advertising their movies. I didn't know they'd even acquired "Everyone's talking about Jamie" until I saw it was randomly on their service a couple of weeks ago

[Sophia Jane]

12 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Yeah, that's pretty accurate for the UK

haha,Acturally I'm really envy that UK has too many cutlure productions which are popular in the whole world,China only have Bruce Lee,or the Great Wall,but I believe we will doing better on culture output in the future!

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by Bruce

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, Bruce said:

haha,Acturally I'm really envy that UK has too many cutlure productions which are popular in the whole world,Chinese only have Bruce Lee,or the Great Wall,but I believe we will doing better on culture output in the future!

 

Access to Chinese media is easier now than it's ever been in the past, we've even had opportunities to watch some of the local blockbuster's in IMAX etc. 

[Sophia Jane]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

Access to Chinese media is easier now than it's ever been in the past, we've even had opportunities to watch some of the local blockbuster's in IMAX etc. 

I am really happy to hear that,thanks

[Dandeak2000]

54 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

24 - 26 September 2021

 

1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - £1,600,000 (-33%) / £18,300,000 / Week 4
2. The Many Saints of Newark - £674,645 / £945,063 (inc. previews) / Week 1
3. Free Guy - £550,931 (-19%) / £16,100,000 / Week 7
4. Oasis Knebworth 1996 - £344,833 / £634,278 (inc. Thursday previews) / Week 1
5. Respect - £249,872 (-28%) / £1,700,000 / Week 3

 

The Green Knight - £166,021 / 73 sites / Week 1 / £2,274 PSA (per site average)

 

Shang-Chi is now only £500K from passing Black Widow and £1.1M away from Captain America: The Winter Soldier to become the 17th highest grossing MCU title.

 

Oasis Knebworth grossed £150K more than Summer of Soul (£454.6K) in its first two days,

 

More to come soon...

6. Candyman - £232,599 (-26%) / £4,700,000 / Week 5
7. The PAW Patrol Movie - £213,000 (-18%) / £7,860,000 / Week 7
8. The Green Knight - £166,021 / 73 sites / Week 1
9. The Croods 2: A New Age - £152,401 (+3%) / £9,600,000 / Week 11
10. Malignant - £145,911 (-37%) / £1,260,000 / Week 3

 

Unplaced Numbers

 

Qismat 2 - £138,540 (inc. previews) / Week 1 (Biggest ever for a Punjabi film in the UK)
Jungle Cruise - £130,920 / £12,400,000 / Week 9
Space Jam: A New Legacy - £112,920 / £12,700,000 / Week 1
The Alpinist - £58,558 / £77,870 (inc. previews) / Week 1
Spirit Untamed - £53,758 (+5%) / £3,300,000 / Week 9
Dune (1984) - £39,582 / 255 sites / Week 1
The Suicide Squad - £34,265 / £14,200,000 / Week 9
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan - £31,516 / £2,300,000 / Week 6
Copshop - £31,000 / £513,000 / Week 3
Herself - £19,496 / £243,529 / Week 3
Small World - £15,250 (-69%) / £130,411 / Week 2
The Last Bus - £12,367 / £359,698 / Week 5
The Nest - £10,691 / £444,987 / Week 5
Gagarine - £10,163 / £10,677 (inc. previews) / Week 1
The Man Who Sold His Skin - £3,285 / £4,022 (inc. previews) / Week 1
Gunpowder Milkshake - £2,864 / £59,573
The Ballad of Billy McCrae - £1,069 / Week 1

[Krissykins]

42 minutes ago, Bruce said:

haha,Acturally I'm really envy that UK has too many cutlure productions which are popular in the whole world,China only have Bruce Lee,or the Great Wall,but I believe we will doing better on culture output in the future!

 

I wonder if Spice Girls would be another good example? They achieved world domination lol. 

[Sophia Jane]

8 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

I wonder if Spice Girls would be another good example? They achieved world domination lol. 

They are not really popular in China

 

Not only Spice Girls,to be frank,no Western singer or dancer is popular/famous in China

 

Although too many Chinese love western pop song,but they only know the song,they have no idea about singer,they don't even care about the singer,for example,most of Chinese have heard of Adele's "Hello" ,but not too much people know who Adele is,in short word,"Western song" is far more popular than "Western singer" in China.

 

The only execption is Michael Jackson,his name and his song are both extremely popular in China,his name is widely known from 5 years old to 80 years old,I think the main reason is his kind heart and his incredible music.